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MusicLM

Google · 26 January 2023

Google Research paper generating minutes-long 24 kHz music from text prompts, plus the 5,500-pair MusicCaps dataset.

Treats text-to-music as hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modelling, producing coherent audio over several minutes and conditioning on a hummed or whistled melody plus a style caption. Outperformed earlier systems on quality and text fidelity in the authors' evaluation.

Date
Thursday, 26 January 2023
Lab
Google
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MeasureValueMeasured by
Output sample rate24 kHz
coherent over multiple minutes
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MusicCaps dataset5,500 music-text pairs
expert-written captions, released publicly
company

Paper and samples only at release; the Lyria model line (2023-11) is the DeepMind successor.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2301.11325
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_in_artificial_intelligence

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